THREE STARS Tired and ragged, Odysseus returns to Ithaca to find there's a lot of work to be done. PERIOD DRAMA UK #THERETURN Starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche Director Uberto Pasolini (STILL LIFE) isn’t extravagant. Gods, monsters, grand speeches – all stripped away from Homer’s Odyssey . It’s pared back to a bare-bones tale of a man washed ashore and the land, and people, he must move through to reclaim his place. In theory, it’s a shrewd approach. In practice, it l

FOUR AND A HALF STARS When a tsunami floods a young cat's home, he has to learn the power of teamwork to survive. ANIMATED DRAMA LATVIA #FLOW Starring a cat, a dog, a crane, a lemur and a capybara For animal lovers and cat people in particular, FLOW can be an anxious experience. Watching Gints Zilbalodis’s hypnotic, dialogue-free adventure feels a little like leaving home wondering whether you’ve shut all the windows: what if my cats escape? The anxiety is real, and Zilbalod

TWO STARS De Niro is both Vito and Frank, two gangsters with a grudge. PERIOD DRAMA US English #THEALTOKNIGHTS Starring Robert De Niro, Debra Messing Based on a true story, this is the oft-told tale of best friends who become best enemies. They’re also gangsters, European immigrants who find a new life in the US and squeeze a multi-billion dollar empire out of the American Dream. By the time we meet the Alto Knights - Frank Costello ( Robert De Niro ) and Vito Genovese (Robe

TWO STARS Mickey is an Expendable. His job is to die, be reprinted, and die another day. SCI-FI COMEDY DRAMA US English #MICKEY17 Starring Robert Pattinson, Mark Ruffalo On the run from loan-sharks, Mickey Barnes ( Robert Pattinson ) signs up as an Expendable on a Mission to colonise a new planet. He gets the dangerous jobs knowing that if he dies, his body will be reprinted and his memories uploaded to a brand new Mickey. By the time we join his story, we’re up to the seven

FOUR STARS Pansy is an angry woman who doesn't shy away from telling people what she thinks, no matter how rude she gets. DRAMA UK English #HARDTRUTHS Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is an extraordinarily angry woman and she’s not shy from telling people what she thinks - the first of many hard truths are levelled at her husband, her son, at strangers in the supermarket. It’s also clear to us that Pansy is suffering clinical dep

FOUR STARS When Mel transfers from Juvenile, he finds himself on course for a life in prison. DRAMA AUSTRALIA English #INSIDE Starring Vincent Miller, Guy Pearce Writer-director Charles Williams has crafted a rare gem of a film. It’s also one that presents Australian detention as it very likely is, neither inherently corrupt nor a system that’s likely to rehabilitate. It puts detainees in a holding pattern for the safety of the public where, with a little luck, a few might b

FOUR AND A HALF STARS An Iranian judge falls into a pit of political paranoia, taking his family with him. DRAMA IRAN Persian #SEEDOFTHESACREDFIG Starring Missagh Zareh, Sohelia Golestani This overwhelming film from dissident Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rosoulof is very much greater than the sum of its parts. And those parts - family drama, political thriller, social allegory, action film, horror and western - are each amazing in their own right. In tackling his country’s opp

TWO STARS Time has been called on the last, big glamour show in Vegas and with it, the career of its oldest showgirl. DRAMA US English #THELASTSHOWGIRL Starring Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis Lurking deep inside THE LAST SHOWGIRL is a great film. Like Gia Coppola’s (grand-daughter of Francis, niece to Sofia) provocative PALO ALTO, this is stuffed with possibility from concept to casting, but unlike her debut, it suffers from such uncertainty as to neutralise any glimmer o

TWO AND A HALF STARS Down Mexico way, William Lee has become infatuated with a young serviceman. DRAMA ITALY/US English #QUEER Starring Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey Filming any story by William Burroughs is going to be a challenge. Gus Van Sant succeeded with DRUGSTORE COWBOY, David Cronenburg excited audiences with NAKED LUNCH. Yet for every hit there are oh so many that slipped into the long night, never to be seen or heard of again. Thus tackling Burroughs’ autobiographical

THREE AND A HALF STARS A successful CEO begins an affair with an intern, but who is taking advantage of whom? DRAMA US English #BABYGIRL Starring Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson If you’ve a thing for Nicole Kidman strutting her not-unattractive stuff, or like to leer at the twunky good-looks of Harris Dickinson ( TRIANGLE OF SADNESS ), BABYGIRL is the film for you. Halina Reign’s sexy sex-thriller is three parts airport novel to one part EYES WIDE SHUT; a low-carb S&M romp